Category Archives: Space

Where do you plan on being in 5 years? Typically this would be an inconsequential question often asked at job interviews, where you’re suddenly forced to make up some sort of lofty goal or otherwise lie your ass off to make yourself look good. But what if I were to ask you where do you […]

A swarm of thousands of black holes may surround the giant black hole at the heart of our galaxy, a new study finds. At the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies are supermassive black holes with masses that are millions to billions of times that of the sun. For example, at the center of […]

We’re entering uncharted territory. For more than 2,000 years, we humans have been arguing about life and, in particular, intelligent life in the universe. But arguing was pretty much where it always ended. For all that time, we never had any evidence or any data that could raise the discussion above two people with different […]

The now defunct Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is en route to crash into Earth – completing its “atmospheric reentry phase”. While experts have been aware that this would happen for more than a year, there has been huge uncertainty around the exact timing. As the station’s orbital altitude has decreased, however, this uncertainty has gradually […]

TESS is in the home stretch. NASA’s next planet-hunting spacecraft — whose full name is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — is scheduled to launch on April 16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. TESS will scrutinize more than 200,000 nearby stars for signs of orbiting worlds, many […]